The House of Lords now has more than 800 members, all of whom can get accommodation and attendance allowances even if they do not speak.
Environment Secretary George Eustice defended the awarding of peerages to former party treasurers and Conservative donors, saying their expertise made them ‘valuable’ members of the upper chamber.
Ms Trevelyan told Sky News: ‘I don’t think that someone who happens to have been an extremely good businessman and has made a great deal of money through business activity – usually also an enormous amount of philanthropy as well, those are the sorts of people who are across our country, amazing people of all political colours – that they should be barred from going to the House of Lords because they have made a lot of money, employed many, many thousands of people, run incredible businesses at...
Lords appointments are vetted by a commission. But Boris Johnson became the first Prime Minister to overrule it when he insisted billionaire donor Peter Cruddas get a seat, despite resigning as party treasurer after being caught offering access to predecessor David Cameron in 2012.He said: ‘The Metropolitan Police should launch a fresh cash for honours investigation to determine whether a criminal offence has been committed.
It follows Tory attempts to block an immediate 30-day suspension for Mr Paterson over an ‘egregious’ breach of lobbying rules.
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